Quotes About Politics

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

I believe in a balanced government. I don't believe in minimum or maximum. Balance is always the best way.

Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We're in a democratic country.

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

In 2014, Modi's name was there in the minds of people due to the good work he had done in Gujarat as chief minister. He made Gujarat one of the most developed states in India.

I don't have any ambition to become minister.

Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

From the beginning of this century, for a decade as chief minister of Gujarat and for just over four years as India's PM, Modi has made an indelible mark in the annals of our history.

I have been in the politics for the last 40 years. I became chief minister in 1995 and worked in the NDA and UPA. I have seen it all.

Chidamabaram has ruined the economy. He has turned out to be a third-rate failure as finance minister.

Jayalalitha has turned out to be a failure as chief minister.

I wasn't a party apparatchik. I think too many of today's people in both parties come forward, university, 'What party will I join? Oh, yes, I know somebody here. I might get a job working for this member or for that shadow minister or minister.'

I was a minister in the Vajpayee government. Atalji wanted to do so many things. But, since he was heading a coalition government, he could not do all those things.

It's been an honour to represent Orpington for 9 years & to serve as a minister under three PMs.

KCR is not a Chief Minister, he is a cheap minister.

People still talk about 'Yes, Minister.' Americans, too; they love it. It was a happy period for me and it did change my life.

Apart from being a chief minister, I am also the national president of my party. So I have to take care of the party in other states as well as in U.P.

I have been chief minister twice. In 1997 I was in office for six months, and during that period I did a lot of work, much more than what anybody can do in six years.

In 60 years I'm yet to meet a Chief Minister who blames others for his own inability to work.

Right from the beginning, it was clear that Karnataka chief minister S M Krishna had come with the intention of not giving more water to Tamil Nadu.

No one could stop me from becoming the chief minister of U.P.

I have no hassles handling U.P. For 57 years, the state has been ruled by non-BSP parties which is why it is so backward. In my first term as the chief minister, in four months I did the work of four years.